Did you follow any rules like Dogme 95 and the Vow of Chastity directors did?
MF: Festen [Celebration]one of my favorite films of all time. I think it is genius. I also loved the Scandinavian film that has just come out Show Me Love. There were a couple of really strong rules. • It is a movie with four simultaneous takes and no cuts. There is no negotiating. That is the rule. • I told the actors to never wear exactly the same outfit everyday over our two-week shooting period. This way there could never ever be the possibility of stealing a scene from another day’s shoot and cheating it in the edit. That was kind of a golden rule. [Actors were responsible for their own costumes, hair, and make-up.] Then, what we did with the movie I didn’t hold to any of the Dogme rules. TV: Viewing Time Code is surprisingly similar to watching a musical symphony or perhaps a garage band. Each quadrant seems to represent its own instrument. It is like watching a performance where the entire feature film was shot in one fluid take. There are no cuts. To make this possible each of
